talab

Borrowed from Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب (tâlâb).

talab (plural talabs)

1. (Middle East, India, Pakistan) A pond for harvesting rainwater.
   • 2009 September 13, Rick Westhead, “India: Will the tap run dry?”, in Toronto Star‎:

     Harish, whose foundation provides villages with some of the building costs for tankas and talabs, grins as she relates the story.

• Balta, Labat, tabla

• Hyphenation: ta‧lab

talab

1. a pen shell; any member of the family Pinnidae

• balat, latab, tabla

From Arabic طَلَبَ (ṭalaba, “to demand, ask, beg”). Though the Arabic verb can mean “to ask God in prayer”, the general sense “to pray” is not present. In Maltese, it is without doubt a semantic influence from Sicilian prigari (both “to ask” and “to pray”), from Latin precari.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.lap/

talab (imperfect jitlob, past participle mitlub, verbal noun talb or tlib)

1. to ask for; to request; to beg
2. to pray; to be in prayer

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈlab/ [tɐˈlab]
• Rhymes: -ab
• Syllabification: ta‧lab

taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)

1. potently effective; proved effective (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)

   Synonyms: mabisa, nagkabisa, may-bisa

2. effectively cutting through (of cutting tools)

taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)

1. potent effectiveness; effective action (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)

   Synonyms: bisa, epekto

2. cutting action (of cutting tools)

   Synonym: kagat

3. (obsolete) act of blunting a tool
4. (obsolete) root used for dyeing

• balat, tabal, tabla

From Arabic طَلَب (ṭalab), compare Turkish talep (“request”).

talab (plural talablar)

1. request

   Synonym: istak

• talabgor